![]() ![]() ![]() This night's gig was three hours, and I renewed the SuperGlue twice, since it had a tendency to crack and form ridges which plucked the strings when I lifted off, especially on the electric. It worked, though it was grosser to look at. So I ran across the street to Walgreens and bought a bottle of brush-on NewSkin, since they didn't stock the spray. Seems the nozzle had cemented itself shut. I started out to do the same thing as the first night, until I found that the spray-on NewSkin wouldn't spray, though there was plenty of liquid in the bottle. So I had some backstopping (from the guy who I think is the best guitar player in town). The second night, I had a big advantage: the mando player, who usually does one or two numbers on the guitar, had brought along his National, and played a lot more than usual. I adjusted, though, and renewed the SuperGlue at the midbreak (it got pretty frayed). The weird thing was that at the beginning of the evening I didn't have a proper sense of where my hands were in space, probably because there wasn't much feeling at the tips of my fingers. It worked, and somewhat surprisingly I found it was equally easy to play the acoustic and the Tele. Then I added a layer of brush-on SuperGlue. The first night, I got a bottle of NewSkin spray, put three layers on the bad fingers, then heated my hands in hot water (necessary to keep them from cramping up). (Oh, the lady in the pharmacy also had some other advice: don't cook on the day before a gig. Paul (trying to find a way to kick myself) I was planning to play mostly acoustic but it looks like more of a Telecaster weekend after this. So - any suggestions? I can't cancel the gigs or get a sub - not possible or desirable. She's a percussion player, not a guitar player, but it sounds like good advice to me. But - how the $* am I going to play the gigs? I got some special fingertip Band-Aids, and while I was discussing the matter with the friendly pharmacist, a lady sitting waiting for her prescription joined the conversation and recommended making a pad of moleskins over the Band-Aids, on the tips of the fingers. I peroxided eveything and put on Band-Aids. Straight cut, near the tip, which stopped bleeding more quickly. Then, to an injury to injury, I cut the tip of my middle finger with the knife while chopping an onion. Finally made it quit with some really tight Band-Aids and a little gaff-tape for tightness. ![]() Not quite on the tip where it hits the strings but a little to the side anyway it bled a lot and was reluctant to stop. So I was in the kitchen and first cut my left index finger tip with the vegetable peeler. I have a big two-night playing gig this weekend (2 hours Friday, 3 hours Saturday). ![]()
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